A Picture is worth a Thousand Words

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A Picture is worth a Thousand Words
The Persuasive Power of Photography
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The Invention of Photography

• The basic chemistry
• Johanne Schultze -light-sensitive materials
• Carl Scheele -fixing the image
• First Photographs
• Joseph Niepce-permanent image using an emulsion
• Louis Daugerre - direct-positive image on metal
• William Henry Fox Talbot -paper negative, allowed
  multiple images
• Fredrick Archer -glass negative, multiple images
  with sharper detail

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Camera Obscuro
From Greek meaning dark chamber
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Calotype Prints
William Henry Fox Talbot
Calotype paper negative
Paper print (positive) form calotype negative
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From Laboratory to Art
Joseph Neipce
One of the earliest photographs using an emulsion.
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From Laboratory to Art
LouisDaguerre
Daguerreotype a direct-positive process using
an emulsion on a metal plate
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From Laboratory to Art

• Naturalists
• Nature recorded without changing it (Realism)
• Pictorialists
• Photographs should look like paintings
  (Emotionalism)

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Naturalists
Phillip Henry Delamotte
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Pictorialists
Oscar J. Rejlander
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Bringing distant lands home

• Carte dvisite - (postcards)
• Photo Journalists
• War Photographers
• Matthew Brady Timothy Sullivan
• Robert Capa Larry Burrows
• Carl Mydans W. Eugene Smith
• Life Magazine Photographers
• Margaret Bourke-White Jacob Riis
• Alfred Eisenstaedt Lewis Hine

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Carte dvisite

• Carte dvisite - (postcards)
• souvenirs of visits to far
• away places

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From Laboratory to Art

• Artists Photographers
• Alfred Stieglitz Edward Weston
• James Van Der Zee Edward Steicen
• Gordon Parks Ansel Adams
• Arnold Newman Annie Liebowitz
• Paul Strand Dianne Arbus
• Imogen Cunningham

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Memory Makers

• Timeline
• Earliest photographs appeared around 1839
• Events throughout history

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Photojournalism
Timothy OSullivan - 1864
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Photojournalism
Matthew Brady - 1864
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Photojournalism
Andrew J. Russell
The Golden Spike used to connect rail lines from
East and West at Promontory Point, Utah, 1869
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Photojournalism
Lewis Hine
Immigrants at Ellis Island -1908
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Photojournalism
Margaret Bourke-White
First issue of Life Magazine - 1936
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Photojournalism
Sam Shere
Hindenburg Disaster May 6, 1937
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Photojournalism
Walker Evans
Federally-funded Work Program
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Photojournalism
Margaret Bourke-White
The Liberation of Buchenwald - 1945
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Photojournalism
Joe Rosenthal
Raising the Flag at Mt. Suribachi - Iwo
Jima February 23, 1945
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Photojournalism
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother - March, 1936
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Photojournalism
Alfred Eisentstaedt
V-J Day in Time Square August 14, 1945
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Photography as Art
Edward Weston
Pepper - 1930
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Photography as Art
Ansel Adams
Moon and Halfdome - Yosemite Valley
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Photography as Art
Georgia OKeeffe - 1918
Alfred Steiglitz
Sun Rays - Paula - Berlin 1889
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Photography as Art
Grapes on White Dish - Dark Rim - 1920
Georgia OKeeffe A Portrait - Hands and Grapes -
1921
Georgia OKeeffe
Alfred Steiglitz
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Photography as Art
Georgia OKeeffe A Portrait - Neck - 1921
The Dark Iris No. II - 1926
Alfred Steiglitz
Georgia OKeeffe
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Photography as Art
Gordon Parks
American Gothic
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Photography as Art
James Van Der Zee
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Photography as Art
Arnold Newman
Igor Stravinsky
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Photography as Art
W. Eugene Smith
Into the Light
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Innovations

• Tools Techniques
• Kodak camera
• Leica 35 mm camera
• Leica and others 35 mm electronic camera
• Ektachrome color slide film
• Kodachrome color slide film
• Kodacolor color print film

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Kodak Brownie Camera
First mass produced camera available to the
general public.
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LeicaThe first 35mm electronic camera

• Small format film

• Electronic Shutter

• Quality Optical Lens

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First Color Slide Film
Kodak Ektachrome
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Image Makers

• Famous faces

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Image Makers
Matthew Zimmerman
Marilyn Monroe 1954
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Image Makers
Arnold Newman
Pablo Picasso
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Image Makers
Edward Steicen
Gloria Swanson
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Image Makers
The Kennedy Family
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Image Makers
The Blues Brothers
Woopie Goldberg
Annie Liebowitz
Bruce Springsteen
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Memories You Cant Forget
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Photojournalism
Robert Jackson
The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald - 1963
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Photojournalism
W. Eugene Smith
A young woman deformed by Mercury Pollution Japan
- 1971
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From Laboratory to Art
Montgomery Civil Rights Demonstration
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From Laboratory to Art
M.L. Kings I Have A Dream speech March on
Washington - 1968
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Photojournalism
Bill Eppridge
The Assassination of Robert Kennedy - 1968
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Photojournalism
Huynh Cong Nick Ut
Children fleeing an American Napalm strike - 1972
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Viewing Ourselves
William Anders - 1968 Apollo 8
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Photojournalism Age of Revolution
Alexandra Avakian
Fall of The Berlin Wall -1989
Alfred
Farewell to Lenin - Bucharest, 1990
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Photojournalism
Charles H. Porter IV
Fireman and child in Oklahoma City - 1995
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Photography Today

• Where we stand now

• How the past influenced the present

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Whats Next ?

• New Technology and Photographic Processes
• Ethical issues
• Whats in the Future

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Innovations
Edward Muybridge
Zoophraxiscope - showing horse galloping - 1881
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Technology
Strobe Flash Photography - 1939
Harold Edgerton
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Manipulated Images combining traditional images
in the darkroom
Jerry Ulesman
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Innovations
David Hockney
Pearblossom Highway - Photocollage- 1986
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Innovations
Robert Silver
Photomosaic of Lincoln using Matthew Brady Images
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Image Makers
Photo Illustration by Matt Mahurin
O.J. Simpson
L.A. Police Mug shot
Time Magazine Cover
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Image Makers
Who knows what some people might do!
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To be continued...